A fun discovery at the breakfast spread, here at the Grandhotel Lienz in Austria:

The Kleine Zeitung.

That translates as Little Newspaper, and nothing could be more direct. This is a quarter-size newspaper, in one section. Like a tabloid, except about half the sheet size.

(I placed a Bic pen on the paper, in the photo above, to give you an idea of how small it is.)

Why do I like it?

It’s just so darn cute. And I love the name. The Little Newspaper.

It is great for reading at the breakfast table, especially in a five-star hotel when you don’t want to have a broadsheet newspaper taking over the room.

It also has several appealing features, including a celebrity page on the back page, an easy-to-read weather page, a few pages of sport (I now know what Rapid Wien is up to), op-ed pages, world news pages — and all of it in German easy enough that I nearly always get the gist of stories.

Oh, and the daily “Crash-Kurs” — crash course. In which the Kleine Zeitung teachers German speakers a little English.

For example: “Was heisst auf Englisch … Mir sind die Hande gebunden.”

The answer? “My hands are tied.”

I find myself enthusiastic about the Little Newspaper, which is good for someone who has spent his life in print. I look forward to seeing it, and wading through the German. (Boy, do they love their compound words.)

It has a website, too, in German, and if you want to give that a look, here it is.

It looks like it would be a fun newspaper to work at. Slick but little, terse but informative — and a few stories a day of some length. And they appear to have a correspondent of their own in Syria, covering the crisis there.

I am thinking of carrying a copy of the Little Newspaper around with me, and showing it to some journalism colleagues back in Abu Dhabi.

Would this work in the U.S.? I’d like to think it would have appeal, but I imagine it would run into the same issues that broadsheets are having.

Or maybe everyone would love it like I do!